Beginning Hatha Yoga (Carla)
Every Fri, 9:15-10:15am
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum
Preregistration required

You will be guided through a full hour Hatha Yoga Session where you will practice hatha yoga poses at a slow, and controlled pace while you focus on your breathing through each pose.

Instructor:  Carla Johnson
Capacity: 20

HealthFinders Zumba with Maribel
Every Tue/Thu, 6:00-7:00pm
Cost: Free

Join the Zumba Party. Hosted in collaboration with Healthfinders this ZUMBA class is a free class to the community. Zumba is a fusion of Latin and International music - dance themes that create a dynamic, exciting, effective fitness system! The routines feature aerobic/fitness interval training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body. Zumba will help increase your cardiovascular endurance, burn calories, increase stability and coordination all while having a blast!

Instructor: Maribel

Afternoon Qi Time
Every Mon/Wed/Fri, 4:15-4:45pm
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum

Reawaken your willingness to play as you test new distinctions for expanding your inner sense of joy both in and out of class with practice. Benefits that naturally grow over time include gains in vitality, health, balance, and coordination, whole body graceful movement, sense of flow in and out of class and somatic awareness. Great if you want to lessen chronic pain, stiffness, anxiety, the fear of falling and inflammation.  We will practice moves from medical qigong routines and the tai chi flow class while letting student input help guide the direction of each class.

Instructor: Rob Gersky
Capacity: 10

Tap Dance Fusion
Every Thu, 3:45-4:45pm
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum

Come and learn the basics of tap dance in a new class that fuses the basics of traditional tap dance with chair tap!  The class will be divided into three segments:  the first 20 minutes will focus on warming up and basic footwork while seated.  The following 20 minutes will explore footwork combinations while standing with the chair available as support (or still seated if preferred).  Finally, the last 20 minutes will be spent without (or with) the chair, putting the footwork combinations into routines to set fun music and tap dance hits.  All levels are welcome; no experience necessary!  Tap shoes, character shoes, or ballroom oxfords are helpful, but not required.

Instructor: Kate Stuart
Capacity: 20

HealthFinders Boxing
Wednesday, 5:30-7 pm
Cost: Free

Join us every Wednesday at 5:30 pm for boxing with amateur boxing coaches. You’ll learn the core techniques, including proper stance, footwork, and how to throw jabs, crosses, hooks, and uppercuts.

Sign up through HealthFinders, 507.646.8964

Tai Chi for Strength
Every Tue, 7:00-7:45pm
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum

Learn a basic Tai Chi Ball routine as you learn to move with your whole body in a more flowing, relaxed, and coordinated way! Build fluid strength while improving circulation and balance.  Each session will include practicing our 20-minute routine in a continuous flow plus focused instruction on specific principles of Tai Chi movement that will help you let go of less integrated and more tension-filled movement patterns.

Instructor: Rob Gersky
Capacity: 20

Tai Chi Flow
Every Mon/Wed/Fri, 3:30-4:00pm
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum

This gentle, slow moving meditation doubles as moving medication naturally relieving pain and inflammation while increasing joint health, flexibility, and balance. Good news!
There are no forms to remember or be corrected on so you can deepen into the continuous flow experience in class and with regular practice in your daily life as well. Tai Chi Flow will be modified for all abilities.

Instructor: Rob Gersky
Capacity: 10

Somatics
Every Fri, 2:15-3:15pm
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum
Prerequisite: Completion of an Intro to Somatics 4-week class series and instructor approval.

This ongoing Somatic Movement class is designed to guide you in developing your somatics practice at home and in your daily life. We will explore variations of the basic somatic exercises, learn new exercises, and address complex somatic patterns such as walking, reaching, balancing - all in the interest of better movement overall. The intention is to help you remain current in your somatics practice, explore movement options, and move freely throughout the day.

Instructor:  Cheryl Ramette, Certified Somatics Instructor
Capacity: 20
 

Easy Line Dancing
Every Tue, 4:00-4:45pm
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum

Everyone is welcome in this fun and easy 45-minute class featuring line dances both old and new.  Dancing has many benefits for seniors, including improved balance, cognitive function, coordination, and strength. The music will feature top hits from the 1950s onward, with a few country music tunes and some surprises. 

Instructor: Kate Stuart
Capacity:  20

Seated Chair Line Dancing
Every Wed, 2:15-3:00pm
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum

Seated Line Dance is a class that involves doing dance moves while seated in a chair accompanied by great music!  It is suitable for those with limited mobility—whether temporary or permanent—and for those who simply want to try something new.  Each class will bring top-of-the-chart music hits from the past and present paired with a variety of arm and leg movements that are all done seated.
 
Instructor: Kate Stuart
Capacity:  20

Intermediate Line Dancing
Every Wed, 1:00-2:00pm
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum

If you’re an experienced line dancer and/or pick up steps quickly, this is the class for you!  For each dance, we will review the choreography, try the sequence once or twice, and start the music.  The tunes will include pop hits as well as a few country music standards. Intensity level:  light to moderate.

Instructor: Kate Stuart
Capacity:  20

Sound Bath and Meditation
Every Wed, 9:15-10:15am
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum

Come as you are and use this opportunity to let the soothing vibrations from singing bowl instruments help you relax deeply.

A Sound Bath is a healing practice whereby the practitioner guides you in a relaxed, reclining position – often supported in savasana (corpse pose) – and allows the healing sounds of the instruments to “bathe” you in vibration. You will hear the sounds, but more importantly you will feel the vibrations. As you relax more and more through this 45-minute session, you begin to release physical, mental and emotional tensions until you sink into a calm state and simply receive the vibrations.

 Sound baths can have a variety of benefits including: improved sleep, decreased anxiety and fatigue, balanced nervous system, lowered blood pressure, increased focus and deep relaxation. Just as a typical bath involves a person immersing themselves in water, a sound bath immerses you in sound, so you feel enveloped in it. Wear comfortable clothing; bring your own yoga mat if you like.

Instructor:  Carla Johnson
Capacity: 20

Circuit Training
Every Tue/Thu, 9:30-10:30am
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum

Strength and aerobic training on timed stations in the Fitness Room, with select equipment, free weights and cardiovascular machines. Fitness Orientation required.

Instructors: Carla Johnson (Tue), Jeanne Peloquin (Thu)

Strength and Dance Fusion
Every Sat, 8:00-9:00am
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum

Did you know that dancing is good for your memory and you can build muscle at any age? Start your Saturday with a fun workout!  Strength and Dance Fusion is a new class being offered on Saturday mornings.  This class will feature a variety of strength building routines using hand weights as well as easy dance routines to music from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.  We might sneak in a little Zumba Gold. No experience is necessary…..beginners are always welcome! No special equipment is needed, but tennis shoes and a full water bottle are recommended.

Instructor: Ingrid Freeman
Capacity: 30

Hatha Yoga (Nancy)
Every Tue/Thu, 7:00-7:45am
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum

This Hatha Yoga class includes a warm-up, stretching poses (and sun salutation), muscle strengthening, balancing poses and relaxation.
 
Instructor:  Nancy Veverka
Class Limit:  20

Cardio Dance and Drumsticks
Every Mon, 7:00-7:45am
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum

What better way to workout and burn calories then to dance and beat on drums to some great music. Cardio Dance will help increase your cardiovascular endurance, coordination, stability, and hand and eye coordination. This class promises to leave you with a smile on your face and feeling accomplished.

Instructor:  Heather Rataj

Silver&Fit
Every Tue, 12:00-12:45pm 
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum
Preregistration required

Increase, Stability, Strength, and Cardio in this very adaptable Silver&Fit Class.

Instructor:  Marie Frederickson, Dan Corcoran

Silver Sneakers Balance
Every Mon/Wed, 12:00-12:45pm
Cost: Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum
Preregistration required

Improve Balance, Posture, Stability and Core stabilization. All exercises are adaptable for standing or seated position.

Instructors:  Marie Frederickson, Dan Corcoran

Yoga Stretch (Ingrid)
Every Mon, 9:15-10:15am
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum
Preregistration required

Lengthening and holding positions of yoga to help increase flexibility and strength with each pose.

Instructor: Ingrid Freeman
Class Limit:  35

Hatha Yoga Saturday (Ingrid)
Every Sat, 9:15-10:15am
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum
Preregistration required

This yoga class will build strength, flexibility, and balance through the use of yoga poses.   You will begin with an exercise in breathing and light stretching and work towards yoga poses that will incorporate the body in a way that will feel like a full body workout.  You will end the practice in a restorative/recovery pose that will feature the body/mind connection.  No prior yoga experience is necessary.

Instructor:  Ingrid Freeman
Capacity:  20

Gentle Chair Yoga (Marie or Dan)
Every Tue/Thu, 10:30-11:30am
Cost: member fee, calculated when registering; nonmember fee, $10
Preregistration required

All of our yoga classes are movement-based Hatha Yoga. The benefits of any of our yoga classes are stress reduction, increased flexibility and increased muscle strength. The Gentle Yoga classes are chair adaptive and work well for people for whom floor-mat-work is difficult or uncomfortable.

Instructor:  Marie Frederickson

Silver Sneakers
Every Mon/Wed/Fri, 10:30-11:30am
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum
Preregistration required

Combine fun with fitness to increase your cardiovascular and muscular endurance power with a standing or seated circuit workout. Upper-body and lower-body strength work with hand-held weights, elastic tubing with handles, and a SilverSneakers ball is alternated with low-impact aerobic choreography.

Instructors:  Sheilah

Slo Flo Yoga - Thur
Every Thu, 9:15-10:15am
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum
Preregistration required

A form of Yoga that synchronizes the breath with movement. Connecting your body with the breath honors your potential for increased awareness, fluidity, comfort and ease in your practice.

Instructor:  Carla Johnson

Beginning Yoga - Vinyasa (Marie)
Every Tue, 9:15-10:15am
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum
Preregistration required

This practice will move through poses from standing, sitting, and hands and knees. However, I will offer options to remain standing throughout, if preferred. For those who are familiar with yoga there will also be options to increase intensity, if preferred. In all cases the poses will be broken down with clear cues as to how to build the pose to increase flexibility, strength, balance, and avoid injury. 

Instructor:  Marie Frederickson
Class Limit:  18

Strength and Stretch
Every Tue/Thu, 8:00-9:00am
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum

This class is for anyone interested in building strength, stability, endurance and flexibility. We will begin the class with a brief warm-up followed by strength training incorporating free weights, stability balls, bands and other props. The class will end with some great stretches as we cool down. Exercise levels will be scalable based on ability.

Instructor:  Ingrid Freeman
Capacity:  20

Core and More (Craig)
Every Mon/Wed/Fri, 8:30-9:00am
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum
Preregistration required

Burn those pesky calories and strengthen your core muscles in this 30-minute intense Core and More Workout. We will work abs, low back, obligues and more using free weights, stability balls, half foam rollers and resistance bands. Class will involve a warm up, full body strengthening keying on the core muscles that will be done either standing or lying down, and stretching at the end.

Instructor:  Craig Swenson
Capacity:  15

Express Strength (Heather R)
Every Mon/Wed, 6:15-6:45am
Cost: $10, nonmember; $8, member; $0, Fitness Plus/Platinum
Preregistration required

Start your day out right by getting a full body workout in 30 minutes. Nationally certified trainer Heather Rataj will put you through a vigorous half hour workout targeting all the major muscle groups of the upper and lower body.

Instructor:  Heather Rataj